[AMS-announce] CFP (reminder & extension): Lyrica at ACLA, Harvard Univ., Cambridge, Mar 2009

[Announcements for the AMS]

Call for Papers: Lyrica at ACLA/Deadline extended:

The Lyrica Society for Word-Music Relations is pleased to extend its original
Call for Papers deadline for its annual seminar at the American Comparative
Literature Association (www.acla.org) to February 7, 2009.

The conference's broad general theme is "Global Languages, Local Cultures" and
Lyrica's Seminar is entitled "Revival and Surival: Opera, Song, Regionalism,
Pluralism, Nationalism". Please check our posting among the many fascinating
seminars proposed by our colleagues in Comparative Litrature:

http://www.acla.org/acla2009/?p=46

The ACLA's Seminars extend over three days and explore its chosen theme through
a daily, two-to-three-hour session.  A maximum of twelve papers will be
accepted and each session will take the form of a round-table discussion where
debates are encouraged.  Lecture-recitals will also be considered. If submitted
for publication in "Ars Lyrica", papers will be subject to the journal's
peer-review process.

Interested musicologists and ethnomusicologists, scholars of literature and
comparative literature should submit an abstract not to exceed 250 words to:
lyricasociety at aol.com with ACLA in the subject line.